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Taroko Islands, he did not reach the Kurile Islands
themselves, and only the most northerly island in the group
of the “Three Sisters” may possibly be the southern
point of Iturup. He then proceeded along the eastern
coast of Yezo, took the deep bay of Akischis as a strait
separating Seljonyi and Konosir, then crossed in a
southerly direction the large bay on the central coast of Yezo,
without seeing land at its head, to Cape Jerimo (his
Matmai), and had thus navigated the whole east coast of
Yezo; but on account of the heavy fog, which prevented
him from seeing the exact outline of the coast, he made
three islands of Yezo: Matmai, Seljonyi and Konosir. In
1643, De Vries had in his map linked a number of islands
together, making one stretch of country called Jeço, and
now Spangberg had gone to the opposite extreme.
These explorations engaged Spangberg from the 3d to
the 25th of July. He several times met inhabitants of
North Yezo, the Aïno people, whose principal
characteristics he has fully described, but as his men were
suffering from scurvy, causing frequent deaths among them
(by August 29, when he arrived at Okhotsk, he had
lost thirteen, among them the physician), he resolved to
turn at Cape Jerimo, and on his return trip keep his
course so close to the Kuriles that he might strike the
extreme points of De l’Isle’s Jeço, all of Kompagniland,
and the most westerly parts of Gamaland.
Spangberg’s explorations were far from exhaustive.
He but partly succeeded in lifting the veil that so
persistently concealed the true outline of this irregularly
formed part of the globe. His reconnoissance was to
ascertain the general oceanic outline of these coasts.
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